EMERGENCE

Emergence is the coming out of new forms from their obscurity in past experience. What is new was implicit before but not made explicit until now.

OBSCURITY	IN-FORM
confusion	clarity
implicit knowledge	explicit knowledge
unconscious	conscious
incoherent	articulate
memory	anticipation
assumptions	hypotheses
habits	decisions
child	adult
feeling	thinking
unconditioned	conditioned

It is in the transition and translation from one side to another that new meaning is created. Both sides have value. It is the elements on the left that have the potential for something new and what may seem anarchic or troublesome is what can have most value for generating new thinking. By themselves, the elements on the right just repeat the same thinking. Working with the other side, they are needed to make choices and initiate moves.

What is thought of as confusion or chaos is the mixing of many different kinds of order.

Emergence works by separating out confusion into different layers of order . This proceeds in as many steps as it takes for the particular purpose to be realized. In standard LVT there are three such stages.

 

STEP ONE	Separate out knowable elements as objects - leaving their mutual relations undefined	Discrete set of point values MM (1)
STEP TWO	Separate out mutual relationships and define - leaving framework still obscure	Topology of several types of relationship MM (2)
STEP THREE	Separate out framework - leaving historical dynamic undefined	Patterns of coherence MM (3)

 

A PICTURE OF THREE DIMENSIONS OF MEANING	MORE MEANING BY DIGGING DEEPER	A PICTURE OF LAYERS OF MEANING
	At each step, a raw material is taken and processed to separate out a type of meaning. With each step, this material is taken from deeper levels. The visible and articulate elements produced at each step enable a connection with further layers of potential emergence. To have discrete and real steps, what is separated out in the later must not be of the same type as what was seprated out in an earlier. The type of meaning has to change.
Drawing Thinking beyond lists in flip charts, tables, diagrams and models	EVOLVING STRUCTURE	The Higher the Deeper At each step, emergent structure enables us to dig deeper into the apparently inchoate to derive new levels of meaning

THE SYMMETRY OF EMERGENCE

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Digging deeper	beliefs	feelings	Unprocessed experience	MM(2)	MM(3)	Evolving structure

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